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Saving Zinnia Seeds

Categories annuals, bouquets, cut flowers, cutting, flowers, gardening, Growing, seed saving9 Comments on Saving Zinnia Seeds

Hi Lovelies, With fall in full swing, it's a good time to learn how to save seeds of some of my favorite flowers. Luckily for me, collecting seeds from many plants is super easy - one of these being, zinnias. When saving seeds of anything, it's important that the varieties that you're saving aren't hybrids.…

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Growing Calla Lilies

Categories arrangments, bouquets, calla, cut flowers, cutting, flowers, gardening, Growing, Uncategorized1 Comment on Growing Calla Lilies

Hi Lovelies, So here we are on day 22, and I'm still behind in the vast majority of things that I need to get finished. I've still got to transplant over half of the anemones and ranunculus, I still have a bag of tulips to go into the ground, I still have hundreds of daffodils…

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Sunshine and Bitter Days

Categories annuals, arrangments, bouquets, cut flowers, cutting, fall, flowers, gardening, Growing, Uncategorized2 Comments on Sunshine and Bitter Days

Hi Lovelies, There's beauty in everything - in bare stems and in moldy leaves - it's just, sometimes you've just got to look a littler closer to find it. When it's over, the cycle begins again and we rejoice at the promise of the future and something new. I knew that it was coming -…

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Origin Stories

Categories amaranth, annuals, arrangments, bouquets, cut flowers, cutting, first flowers, flowers, gardening, Growing4 Comments on Origin Stories

Hi Lovelies, Origins - I've always been interested in them. Being from what most would consider the south, I'm quite accustomed to hearing phrases that you wouldn't run into elsewhere. On occasion, I hit the ole' Google machine and do a little searching for the things I hear. I realize this doesn't sound like the…

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Beginner’s Guide to a Gorgeous Spring Garden

Categories anemones, annuals, arrangments, bachelor buttons, bouquets, bulbs, corms, cut flowers, cutting, daffodils, direct sow, dutch iris, fall, fall planting, fall sowing, farm, first flowers, flowers, fragrant, gardening, Growing, guide, hardy annuals, hoophouse, how to, ranunculus, seed starting, snapdragons, sweet peas, tulips6 Comments on Beginner’s Guide to a Gorgeous Spring Garden

Hi Lovelies, Well, we made it! Day 15 of Blog-tober! If I had known that 31 days of straight blog posts would be this difficult, I'm not sure I would have taken on the task - but, I'm enjoying it nonetheless. With tons of orders of spring seeds and bulbs landing on my front porch…

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Last Year’s Tulips

Categories arrangments, bouquets, cut flowers, cutting, fall, flowers, gardening, Growing, reviews and trials5 Comments on Last Year’s Tulips

Hi Lovelies, By now you've probably figured out that it's very rare that I do anything without procrastinating for as long as possible first. That means I haven't even ordered or bought my tulip bulbs. Technically, I could be planting them right now, but it's not exactly a secret that I'm waiting on them to…

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Hardy Annual Update – Blog-tober Day 6

Categories annuals, bachelor buttons, bouquets, cut flowers, cutting, direct sow, fall, fall planting, fall sowing, first flowers, flowers, gardening, Growing, guide, hardy annuals, hoophouse, how to, planting, seed starting, Uncategorized, update2 Comments on Hardy Annual Update – Blog-tober Day 6

Hi Lovelies, After finishing last night's post about anemones, I've got to slow my roll a little bit. Besides - with tulip planting, hoophouse building, and new Youtube videos on the way (subscribe! whoop!); I need just a little bit of time to gather and collect my thoughts. Around the September 20; I pulled up…

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How to Grow Anemones in Zone 6 (and probably other places, too!)

Categories anemones, annuals, arrangments, bouquets, bulbs, corms, cut flowers, cutting, fall, fall planting, fall sowing, flowers, gardening, Growing, guide, hoophouse, how to, plastic mulch, ranunculus, tubers, tutorial, Uncategorized, weed barrier16 Comments on How to Grow Anemones in Zone 6 (and probably other places, too!)

  Hi Lovelies, Well, well. It's hard to believe this is already my fifth post of October! In many ways, October is the month that I'm doing the most things. I'm planting bulbs (and ordering, lol), looking for bargains to save money for spring, and trying to enjoy the last of the nice weather before…

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Growing ‘Gay Princess’ Dahlia

Categories arrangments, bouquets, bulbs, corms, cut flowers, cutting, dahlias, flowers, gardening, Growing, how to, picking, planting, reviews and trials, tubers, Uncategorized, update3 Comments on Growing ‘Gay Princess’ Dahlia

Hi Lovelies, Well, it's day four of Blog-tober and we're still going strong - though admittedly, I may or may not be extremely worried about running out of ideas within the next week. Today we'll be taking a look at another dahlia that I grew this season. In an effort to keep these reviews completely…

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